‘Interconnectivity is Key for UAE Banks Looking to Compete with Online Banking', Says Data Centre Expert Equinix

Abu Dhabi, UAE, 09 June, 2015: Equinix, the global interconnection and data center company, today announced its participation in the Arabian Banking Technology Exhibition Conference (ABTEC), Middle East’s premier financial technology event that will take place in Abu Dhabi on the 9th and 10th of June. 

Thanks to evolving technology, a rising number of time-strapped bank customers are looking at convenient and easy banking options, making it imperative for UAE banks to transform themselves from the traditional brick-and-mortar branch set-up to a digital bank that serves customers anywhere, anytime, across multiple channels. 

Equinix can therefore spearhead this trend as its IBX data centers enable hundreds of capital markets participants, insurers and electronic payments firms to co-locate their critical IT systems inside Equinix and interconnect to facilitate the operation of countless financial IT workloads. Explaining how colocation and the deployment of an interconnected  architecture among banks will enable them to achieve customer satisfaction, Robin Manicom, Head of Financial Enterprise, Equinix EMEA will deliver a keynote on June 9th titled ‘Interconnection – The key to becoming a digital, everyday UAE bank’.

“With fast growing demand from tech-savvy customers, banks are evolving their digital businesses to deliver integrated solutions to everyday needs, such as managing money, saving and investing and buying a home. But ensuring all parties are connected in the first place is possibly the biggest challenge. Equinix’s Interconnected Oriented Architecture ensures customers, banks and partners are digitally connected all over the world and is key to enabling digital everyday banking, said Robin Manicom, Head of Financial Enterprise, Equinix EMEA.

“At Equinix, we empower banks to deploy an interconnection-oriented approach that marries users, networks, clouds and other IT capabilities. Our Dubai data center not only offers dense and diverse connectivity options with over 30 network service providers and 15+ cloud service providers, it also offers rapid scaling without downtime. More importantly, the Dubai data center has been accredited with a PCI-DSS certification which is a pre-requisite for financial services clients,” said Jeroen Schlosser, Managing Director, Equinix MENA. 

Equinix is exhibiting at ABTEC ME Show on 9th and 10th June at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre, Hall A, stand C4. Robin Manicom, Head of Financial Enterprise Solutions, Equinix will deliver a keynote address on 'Interconnection: the key to becoming an everyday bank' on June 9th, 12:45 pm onwards.